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Yuki Osumi receives the NDSEG fellowship

Yuki Osumi receives the NDSEG fellowship
Yuki has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship (NDSEG), which will support his research for 3 years. He will continue the development of battery materials using […]


Xin (Jason) Zhang Receives Summer PURA Award

Xin (Jason) Zhang Receives Summer PURA Award
Congratulations on Xin (Jason) Zhang on being chosen as a recipient of a Summer PURA award! The funding will allow Jason to continue a project started under and developed by […]


“Lab Access, Granted” – Fried Lab

“Lab Access, Granted” – Fried Lab
With support from the National Science Foundation, chemist Stephen Fried developed an Intersession course that provides laboratory experience to first-generation students who otherwise might not have had the opportunity for […]


Townsend Lab Nature Publication

Structure of a B12-dependent radical SAM enzyme in carbapenem biosynthesis Abstract: Carbapenems are antibiotics of last resort in the clinic. Owing to their potency and broad-spectrum activity, they are an […]


Professor Fried Wins 2 Scialog Awards

Professor Fried Wins 2 Scialog Awards
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announce awards of $1,320,000 to nine interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell, an initiative launched in 2018 to spark collaborative research that could advance fundamental understanding of chemical […]


A New Ph.D. Spotlight! | Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Vishal Yadav

A New Ph.D. Spotlight! | Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Vishal Yadav
PHutures Ph.D. Spotlight December 2021 features Vishal Yadav, a Ph.D. candidate in JHU’s Department of Chemistry. Learn about the unexpected journey that Vishal undertook to pursue the advanced study of inorganic chemistry at Johns […]


Prof. Kempa Wins JHU Career Impact Award

Prof. Kempa Wins JHU Career Impact Award
From the office of Integrated Learning and Life Design: “The new Career Impact Award at Johns Hopkins University celebrates faculty members, students, postdoctoral fellows, and alumni who have gone above […]


Xin Zhang Also Receives AY22 PURA

Xin Zhang Also Receives AY22 PURA
Xin (Jason) Zhang, a current undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and working in the McQueen laboratory is apart of the AY22 PURA cohort! Their project is “Synthesis and Characterization of […]